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Posted by admin on May 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment
By Frank Moher PARIS – It is a curious thing, to host the lions of the digital world in a series of tents in a public park. But that is what French President Nicolas Sarkozy did this week in Paris, for the so-called eG8 forum, a prelude to the G8 forum 173 km to the [...]
Posted by admin on May 11, 2011 · 1 Comment
By Rachel Krueger When it comes to pop cultural infections, the only thing worse than hearing “Born This Way” AGAIN (again from when I heard it this morning, but also again from when I heard it in 1989) is getting a facebook notification that Jodie just bought me a cow and would I like to [...]
Posted by admin on April 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment
By Montreal Simon Uh oh. Talk about poking our privacy. The bitter nerd Stephen Harper has been caught with his pants down reading our Facebook pages. And looking like a creeper. From The Vancouver Sun: “Prime Minister Stephen Harper is suddenly on the defensive for running a closed and ‘unCanadian’ campaign after two university students [...]
Filed under Politics · Tagged with bad behaviour, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Facebook, John Baird, Karl Rove, Liberals, Michael Ignatieff, social media, Stephen Harper
Posted by admin on September 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment
By Frank Moher I have been outed. A new study by a York University student reveals that heavy Facebook users are “narcissists” who enjoy monitoring “how many friends they have.” Guilty as charged. I’m not sure I qualify as a “heavy” Facebook user — I’m much too busy twittering for that — but I am [...]
Posted by admin on May 26, 2010 · 3 Comments
By Frank Moher As those of you with way too little to worry about may know, May 31st is Quit Facebook Day. This is a Canadian initiative, once again proving that, while we of the North may not have the entrepreneurial mojo to create much, we sure know how to get all indignant once somebody [...]
Posted by admin on May 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Personal web pages started for the most part at universities, because students and profs all had accounts, so why not? Then the internet opened up to mortals, and a lot of them put up web sites, though often on their own dime. Then along came Geocities, which provided free hosting for people’s web sites. And [...]
Posted by admin on May 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The swine flu and overnight singing sensation Susan Boyle have a lot in common, and I don’t mean that in the most obvious (and insulting) sense, so shame on you. The swine flu worked its way into Canada from the south, and the video of the self-proclaimed 47-year old virgin worked its way through the [...]
Posted by admin on October 11, 2007 · 2 Comments
Several months ago, following in the reluctant but curious footsteps of my significant other, I hopped on the Facebook bandwagon. Explained to me as “. . . a bulletin board that all your friends can leave notes on” and “. . . a yearbook and a scrapbook and a diary all crammed into one,” the [...]
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